Yaakov Katz ran the Jerusalem Post, backed this war, still does, and delivered the most candid accounting of it I've heard from an Israeli voice.
On the NYT's wild Ahmadinejad story, Netanyahu supposedly inspired by al-Sharaa's dash to Damascus, he couldn't confirm the details but confirmed what matters: a plan existed, Erdogan helped kill it, and its failure has cost Israel real standing in Washington.
The funeral crowds forced his most striking admission.
A country of 10 million believing it could remake a nation of 90 million from two thousand kilometers away, he said, lacked humility.
No cracks ever appeared in the IRGC.
That alone should have told everyone something.
On Dimona, Netanyahu's first publicized visit since 2018, the "textile factory," he wouldn't over-read it but allowed it sends a strong message, then gave the most careful walkthrough of the ambiguity doctrine I've heard: who gives the order, at what threshold, questions never answered out loud by design.
And on the West Bank he refused to defend the indefensible: a state that slipped exploding beepers into a thousand pockets can round up a few hundred settler rioters.
If it doesn't, the conclusion writes itself.
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